When Glamorous Glennis, an experimental Bell X-1 aircraft built to mimic the shape of a .50 caliber bullet, shot to 700 mph (1,127 km/h) with Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager inside, it paved the way ...

MILAN (AP) — Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound during a 24-mile leap through the stratosphere more than a decade ago, died in a crash ...

NASA's X-59 has officially gone supersonic. See how this experimental jet aims to turn disruptive sonic booms into a quiet ...

NASA's Quesst mission seeks to validate a quiet supersonic technology, which could change FAA rules about flying faster than sound. Reading time 4 minutes NASA’s Quesst team is a winner of the 2024 ...

What happens when you hurl molecules faster than sound through a vacuum chamber nearly as cold as space itself? At the University of Missouri, researchers are finding out—and discovering new ways to ...

The X-59 on its earlier first flight last year – when it did not break the sound barrier (Picture: Lockheed Martin/Cover Images) Nasa’s experimental X-59 aircraft, dubbed ‘Son of Concorde’, has flown ...

MILAN — Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound during a 24-mile leap through the stratosphere more than a decade ago, was killed in a crash ...